“That’s Alison”
The Reader in its current iteration is a superb publication, keeping its traditional long-form stories and in-depth reporting side-by-side with an easy-to-use website and solid, reliable listings—and very good tweets and Facebook updates. I don’t know what else the money-people can expect than what you guys already turn out. —Marc Geelhoed
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My professional association with Alison goes back almost 20 years now, and I would have to call it one of the great experiences of my life. Everything I wrote from the early 90s till a few years ago, I wrote with her in mind: I thought of her as my ideal audience for my most envelope-pushing experiments in feature journalism. . . .
I checked my phone at a stoplight and was so appalled and saddened that I had to pull over. Alison True is one of the best editors I’ve worked with. One of those editors who you still wanted to work for/with even though she couldn’t pay you as much with the budget cuts. Who championed and helped shape stories that kept the true grit and characters of Chicago above ground, not buried. This is a sad, sad day. —Leah Pietrusiak
I’m enormously grateful to Alison for her kindness and encouragement and that I hope that the personal and professional generosity she’s put out there over the years will come back her way many times over. —Reece Pendleton
. . . I have just thrown my pen across the room . . . it made a black mark on the wall that looks just like a centipede. I have circled the mark and labeled it, “The day they let Alison True go . . .” —Kurt Mitchell
